mr. lebrun? >> good morning, chair peskin, supervisors. first of all, congratulations, a big thank you for your unanimous approval of the pennsylvania avenue extension, or p.a.x. the reason i'm addressing you today is that i do believe that you're aware of this pendi pending .5 billion trade on second street. the reason i'm addressing you today is i want to bring your attention to the additional impact of this crater on the existing capacity of the train box itself. specifically we're going to lose half of the storage capacity because of the way that we are approaching the train box. so i want to thank you for including my letters in the final version of the packet, and in particular, i'd like to turn your attention to page 17 of the packet, which highlights the potential condemnation of $2 billion of san francisco prime real estate between main street and embarcadero. so in closing, i'd like to make two recommendations. first of all, is that you accelerate the hiring of the person building -- the engineer. it's really critical as we move

mr. lebrun? >> so i'd like to very briefly address the command earlier. [inaudible] >> -- that is true if you are at the beginning of any economic cycle, that is absolutely true. but however, the reverse is true when you essentially are headed towards a recession. and in the letter that i sent to the board earlier this week, i quoted two examples, which was the wall of the central subway contract which is an absolutely project, and also, the -- [inaudible] >> -- 13 miles is $25 billion. all i want to say is let's just think about where we are with the economic cycle, whether we are headed for a recession, how deep this recession is going to be, and tread carefully before we go around rushing around awarding multibillion-dollar contracts. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thank you for your comments, next speaker, please. >> hi. jim patrick, patrick & company. the salesforce tower, we really put that on-line, and jane kim, who's not here, led that effort for quite a while, and i think that system is working well, and seems to be playing out. i encourage you

mr. lebrun's concerns as it relates to surface disruption and cut and cover. and i think that we have all but eliminated that, except for at the throat, whegroat, but w want that to be torn up for years on end, but with that, the floor is yours. >> one of the reasons for doing the study is to look at tunnel boring technology that would prevent and negate the need for a disruption of all of those streets. you are correct for most of its length, the pennsylvania area alignment as we understand it today can be bored just like the central subway was bored. as you approach the terminal, that's simply not part simply because of the opening of the terminal at that point, it will have to be done with a cut and cover operation, but most of the length can be done with a boring machine, and that's one of the things about this piece of analysis, we think it makes sense to do that. the previous proposal would have been not to do that, and there would have been years to disruption to townsend and second street in that process. >> supervisor peskin: and then with the western